Inaugural post of this new collection. The idea is not original: I’m stealing from the best (and please don’t expect this sort of quality and consistency from me): Register Spill — Joy & Curiosity — Thorsten Ball, ~10 links a week with a sentence or two of opinion Simon Willison’s Weblog — linkblog plus “weeknotes” posts ongoing — Long Links — Tim Bray’s occasional long lists of worthwhile reads Michael Tsai — Apple/dev link blog, quotes plus commentary Daring Fireball — Linked List — John Gruber, the original link-plus-two-cents format Waxy.org — Andy Baio’s links rendezvous with cassidoo — Cassidy Williams, curated links in each issue The Weekly Thing — Jamie Thingelstad, weekly links and notes It’s a (probably) futile attempt to revive a moribund blog. I noticed my posting frequency declining to zero, but despite this evidence and in a surge of misplaced blogging optimism I even gave this new collection a Hugo index page and a place on the blog menu bar. ...

Understanding a Dynamic Programming Optimization.

Gemini did what I wouldn't and couldn't.

Going to Cooklang.

Embrace the LLMs.

Existence of n-th root.

How I do C++.

What I have learned so far

How I do tutoring.

Select exercises on sequences and series.

North Woods by Daniel Mason NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR A WASHINGTON POST TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD AND THE MARK TWAIN AMERICAN VOICE IN LITERATURE AWARD A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told ... I enjoyed this book a lot. The episodes are interesting, the writing is superb and it reminds me of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas. It has a little sad, nostalgic undertone coming from the long window of time spanning the episodes in the book. People come into the scope of the house and then disappear again. The permanence of the location is in sharp contrast to the transient existence of the house inhabitants. Some episodes end so abruptly they leave you yearning for more (probably and cleverly intentional).

Deacon King Kong by James McBride A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK From author of NYT bestseller, THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD winner & WINNER OF THE 2024 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PRIZE FOR AMERICAN FICTION TOP TEN books of the year, NEW YORK TIMES & WASHINGTON POST 'Brilliantly imagined, ... The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride THE RUNAWAY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A NEW YORK TIMES READERS PICK: 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY WINNER OF THE 2024 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PRIZE FOR AMERICAN FICTION FROM ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE OF 2024 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY ... James McBride completely hooked me with Deacon King Kong and he did it again with The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store. His characters are so compelling, they stay with you long after you finish his books. Their stories feel like old family stories. His dialog is superb, and often very funny. And he rips out your heart with some devastatingly beautiful scenes in both books (Dodo and Monkey Pants in The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, Sportcoat and Hettie in Deacon King Kong). Easily one of my favorite writers.

Reading Functional Pearl: Knuth-Morris-Pratt illustrated

Manipulating objects algebraically.

Placing a file on file servers.

People of Zion automating defense of robot attacks.

How I do LaTeX.

How I do Haskell (revisited).

How I do Haskell.

Impossibility of a magic square that is also orthogonally connected. Part 5